Re:Grandparents raising children is in line with human biology
by jessaustin on Monday May 23, 2016 @10:31PM
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You don't find the Hadza colorful enough? It's not as though contemporary Chinese culture contradicts TFA's hypothesis.
Re:Grandparents raising children is in line with human biology
by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday May 23, 2016 @10:40PM
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Indeed!
I think there's a valuable lesson to be learned here: among the Hadza studied by ... every nursing mother is supported by a post-menopausal helper, nearly always her mother or mother-in-law.
Re:Grandparents raising children is in line with human biology
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:02AM
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Rather the opposite.
妈妈生,外婆养,外公天天菜市场,
爸爸回家就上网,爷爷奶奶来欣赏。
Re:Grandparents raising children is in line with human biology
by zhemao on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:14PM
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Haha, I haven't heard that piece of doggerel before. Where's it from? It sounds like my cousin. She just recently had a kid but it's mostly my aunt who takes care of the baby.
Also similar to what my early childhood was like before we moved to the states. Except my maternal grandfather passed away shortly after I was born and there was no internet back them.
I think the funniest thing is that it suggests that the modern Chinese family is uxorilocal when it's traditionally been virilocal.
Re:Grandparents raising children is in line with human biology
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @02:37PM
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It was told to me by a Shanghainese woman.
The same woman said that often the grandparents will move in with the parents to care for a child, rather than the other way around.
Bizarre.